Computer as Aid in Describing Form in Gastropod Shells
- 12 October 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 138 (3537), 150-152
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.138.3537.150
Abstract
The basic form of many coiled gastropod shells can be defined by four parameters. A digital computer with automatic plotting equipment can be used to make graphical reconstructions of a shell from any given values of the four parameters.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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